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Title:Longevity Records : Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, & Fish
Series:(Odense Monographs on Population Aging, 8)
Author:James R Carey & Debra S Judge
ISBN:8778385393 : 9788778385390
Illustrations:tables
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:240
Weight: .724 Kg.
Published:University Press of Southern Denmark (Odense University Press) - January 2000
List Price: 18.75 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Zoology & animal sciences


This book is the world’s largest compendium of documented life spans in vertebrates. Record life spans for over 3000 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish indicate wild or captive status, sex (where available) and are linked to source references. A brief introduction addresses the concept of life span, summarises methods for data gathering, criteria for inclusion, and provides a graphic summarisation of within and among group variation in record life spans. The data is organised into four main tables: mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and fishes. Each data table is preceded by a brief introduction summarising important aspects of the life history of important subgroups (e.g. orders). Tables of life spans are organised alphabetically by order, family and genus. Scientific and common name indices facilitate finding record life spans for particular organisms. The book is useful in demography, fisheries and wildlife biology, ecology, population and evolutionary biology, and gerontology.

Introduction; Mammals; Birds; Amphibians and Reptiles; Fishes; Index of Scientific Binomials; Index of Common Names.